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It's our job to keep each other safe. This account mostly reposts things that are pretty or funny: swords, ships, history, comics & illustration, sci fi & fantasy.
Pinned
No to war. No to genocide. No to ICE. No to American fascism.

Resist the callous and casual cruelty of this immoral, anti-human regime and its supporters.
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Oh captain my captain
December 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Support living queer artists @barit0wned.bsky.social @divatron9000.bsky.social making new art!!! (While you're at it, say "fuck you" to billionaire writers lurking in Scottish castles scheming to deprive trans folks of their civil rights & spending all of their royalty payments to make it happen.)
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Okay Bluesky, do your thing! We have just launched the crowdfunding campaign for our BRAND NEW ORIGINAL TRANS OPERETTA 🏳️‍⚧️
AND WE NEED YOUR HELP!
We need to raise $100,000 in one year to make this real and I know we can do it together.
This project is so important and we will make HISTORY!!
December 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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enamel pins and tote bags are back in the shop! the last of the preorders went out this week and remaining stock is available while supplies last 😎 emilycheeseman.com/shop
November 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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new frogs
November 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Happy Feastgiving Everyone!

Hope y'all are staying warm and well-fed. No need to brave the late autumn chill for the first shopping of mariah-carey-has-escaped-containment Season, I have my first collection of 12 handmade turned hardwood ornaments available now!

www.galdrecraft.com/category/orn...
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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@dansinker.com we’ve got graphic whistle cards that work great when you don’t have a common language with all your neighbors. And lightens translation loads on very diverse neighborhoods.

We punch a hole and put it on a key ring.

tinyurl.com/FCDWhistle
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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I handed out neighbor-printed whistles in Flatbush tonight and it was lovely. New Yorkers in motion do not EVER stop to chat but for this, they did.

One church lady in a fancy hat gleefully took a whistle and told me she’d “blow they icy asses outta her town,” then apologized skyward for swearing.
With ICE and border patrol goons spreading out across the country, I put together a resource guide for buying, printing, and distributing whistles, based on my own experience. Now is the time to whistle up, hope this helps. dansinker.com/posts/202…
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Delighted to finally share this episode of The Ottoman History Podcast doing a historical deep dive on The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/11/chak...
A Sea of Sorcery: Roundtable with Shannon Chakraborty
produced by Shireen Hamza and featuring Fahad Bishara, KD Thompson, Liana Saif, Mahmood Kooria, Rebecca Hankins, and Samantha Pellegr...
www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Workers at The Met are trying to unionize, citing “long-term pay inequities, lack of job protection, and ever-increasing workloads.” If they succeed, their union would be one of the largest museum unions in the US.
Met Museum Workers Push to Unionize
Staffers at the New York City institution have filed a petition for a union vote with the National Labor Relations Board.
hyperallergic.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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sharing this line with students today
April 11, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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Now that the book's been out for over a month, I'm re-posting this great review by @hawkwinglb.bsky.social of Queen Demon, for people who have had time to read the book and like really deep smart dives: locusmag.com/review/queen...
Queen Demon by Martha Wells: Review by Liz Bourke
Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor 978-1-250-82691-6, $28.99, 400pp, hc) October 2025. Cover by Cynthia Sheppard. I’ve loved Martha Wells’s fantasy novels ever since I picked up The Element of Fire. Qu…
locusmag.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Also, very early galleys of The Tapestry of Fate are in! I'm so excited to start seeing Amina's next adventure out in the wild
November 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Finally sharing possibly the coolest thing that's happened to me this year. Al-'Usur al-Wusta, in connection with the Ottoman History Podcast, organized a round table discussion on The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. The essays can be found here, with the podcast episode soon to come!
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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2026 Mushroom House Wall Calendar is now available for preorder! Size: 6x11"

I'm doing a week of preorders to help determine how many to get printed. They will ship first week of December so they still can be given as gifts!

nimasprout.shop/products/202...
November 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Do you live in New York and like comics? A bunch of your favorite creators are hanging out at Anyone Comics on Saturday to make anti-ICE literature and want you to join in:
Hands Off NYC Zine and Poster Fun in Brooklyn with local comics creators! · Mobilize
Join New York comic creators to fold zines and make posters to push back against ICE in our city! Stay to fold and color a while or just swing by to pick up zines and posters to distribute in your nei...
www.mobilize.us
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.

We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.

If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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AAAA we hit 100% last night!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!! 😭💖🔥👯💯🔥✨
ICYMI: We launched the Kickstarter for the ✨ BARBAROUS Chapter 6 book ✨ this morning! And we're rapidly approaching goal!! You guys are the best! So psyched to get this into your hands!

Check it out:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/746...
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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What are you building? What are we willing to build together? What do we know must exist?

New WILLING TO BUILD Prints for sale in my shop featuring this quote I love from @prisonculture.bsky.social
100% of profits will go to support the work of REBUILD. More info below👇🏼
September 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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🩸🌞 TODAY TODAY Scarlet Morning is out TODAY 🌞🩸
September 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM